Uptime SOLUTIONS:
The software suite for the reliability process

Uptime SOLUTIONS is the software suite for a reliability process. The products PROVE, LOCATE and HARVEST cover the entire product life cycle. SOLUTIONS forms a platform for the planning and implementation of product development and plant monitoring. The focus lies on the best possible achievement of goals within the scope of limited time and resources. SOLUTIONS addresses in a methodical manner the challenges that results from the cross-sectional character of reliability.

Uptime SOLUTIONS: Process Oriented Architecture

The process-oriented architecture of SOLUTIONS addresses known organisational challenges:

It establishes a platform for inter-disciplinary collaboration
It integrates supplier contributions to product development
It prevents information being lost at the interfaces

The focus of SOLUTIONS lies in the derivation of concrete recommendations for goal achievement:

It uses understandable methods from the worlds of statistics and the physics of damage
It integrates expert knowledge
It focusses effort on the risk drivers

The reuse of knowledge gained enables SOLUTIONS to increase the potential for increasing efficiency:

The knowledge base for downtimes risks provides countermeasures
The model library evaluates tests and creates cause diagnostics for deviations from the nominal behaviour of a plant
Automated reporting provides transparency and ensures the capacity to act

This helps avoid repetition, supports problem solving, and prevents misunderstandings from forming. This increases the productivity of developers and maintenance engineers. The level of quality within the organisation develops through the mutual use of SOLUTIONS: Because all colleagues profit from one another.

These advantages can be achieved, because they are coded into the architecture of SOLUTIONS in the form of functional components that can be used throughout.

Asset administration documents the system hardware and software from product design (CAD model) up to maintenance (CBM, PDM).
The system parameters and system models document the system behaviour from the first functional tests and provide input for validation and plant monitoring
The downtime risk knowledge base is crucial for validation and for the risk-focussed monitoring of plant.
The model library is developed for validation and used in calibrated form for the calculation of lifetime in the scope of PDM

FRACAS documents downtimes and problem solutions, and feeds them into the appropriate process
The inverted impact chain analysis provides a program to handle change risks
Reporting ensures a consistent view of the respective status
The state-event system maintains the reliability process on the target path

The software suite and its products, Uptime SOLUTIONS – PROVE, LOCATE and HARVEST, build upon these generic functionalities. They apply the contents to the respective process stage: Verification, validation, and monitoring. They provide a series of views of the product with the best possible use of previously achieved results.

In the reliability process, Uptime SOLUTIONS acts as organisational-technical brackets that enables a range of diverse disciplines to be effective together.